Rimu (Noun)
Meaning
Tall New Zealand timber tree.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The kahikatea and rimu were the two main species during the earliest days of logging in New Zealand.
- It took many years of patient nurturing for the once tiny rimu sapling to mature into a magnificent giant.
- When walking through the stunning forest the visitors found themselves dwarfed by towering trunks of the ancient rimu.
- Rimu is one of the many flora the environmental groups seek to protect due to the risks posed by illegal logging.
- A well-known artist spends a month out in an ancient New Zealand forest landscape of rimu and beech.